Gloster
Established Member
In 1980 the Clapham Junction-Olympia service had a two coach loco-hauled formation (BCK + TSO) in the morning and a 4-TC in the afternoon. The train just used to run to Olympia in the morning and from Olympia in the afternoon: all the rest of its working (half the mileage) was ecs. At times the service was also worked by DEMUs, normally Central Division ones, although this may have been temporary ‘borrowing’. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, dating back (I think) to the last days of steam on the line, the one-off fibreglass-bodied suburban coach S1000S was regularly used in the train.